6 h. ago John Swinney warns businesses against transgender spaces knee

First Minister John Swinney has warned against a knee-jerk reaction to ban trans people from spaces.

Events

10 h. ago Hong Kong's business, political elite turn out for funeral of property Lee Shau

Hong Kong political and business leaders paid tribute to the city’s late billionaire property tycoon Lee Shau-kee, who led one of the biggest real estate empires in the former British territory

Politics

13 h. ago Connecting flights at Amsterdam? KLM now demands you have an EU

Exclusive: Gavin McDermott, flying to Hong Kong via Amsterdam on the Dutch airline, was denied boarding and had to spend £1,000 on a replacement nonstop flight

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15 h. ago Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash

From the Canadian elections to universities and civil society, the campaign to turn the tide against anti-liberal nationalists is at last underwayLiberals of all countries, unite! Just as anti-liberal powers outside the west are becoming stronger than ever, the assault on everything we stand for has been joined by the United States. Against this massed onslaught of anti-liberal nationalists we need a determined fightback of liberal internationalists. Canada’s election this week can contribute a strong mounted brigade.A core insight of liberalism is that, if people are to live together well in conditions of freedom, power always needs to be dispersed, cross-examined and controlled. Faced with the raw, bullying assertion of might, whether from Washington, Moscow or Beijing, we now have to create countervailing concentrations of power. In the long history of liberalism, a free press, the law, labour unions, a business community kept separate from political power, NGOs, truth-seeking in...

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18 h. ago Asian shares inch higher as uncertainty over US tariffs persists

Asian markets have inched higher as investors wait to see what comes of negotiations over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs

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37 h. ago How Trump's 100 days of havoc took a huge chunk from your pension and investments: ALEX BRUMMER

Trump's landmark period is like no other in modern presidential politics, leaving businesses and investors in a state of trepidation.

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49 h. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Donald Trump's 100 days of havoc takes huge chunk from your pension

Trump's landmark period is like no other in modern presidential politics, leaving businesses and investors in a state of trepidation.

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2 d. ago Donald Trump leads world's political elite ahead of Pope Francis' funeral: US president touches down in Rome overnight with wife Melania

US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in Rome ahead of Pope Francis' funeral. 

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3 d. ago 3 men sentenced to over a century in prison after plot to kill a ringleader in UK's biggest heist

Three men who plotted to kill a former cage fighter, who years before had been convicted of being one of the ringleaders in the U.K.’s biggest-ever heist, have been sentenced to a collective term of over a century in prison

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3 d. ago Pope Francis funeral guest list is revealed as world leaders fly into Rome and faithful queue for last chance to see his open coffin with 130,000 already bidding farewell

Hundreds of high-profile delegations are arriving in Rome today ahead of Pope Francis' funeral as thousands of Catholic faithful queue to pay their respects.

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3 d. ago Businesses ‘crying out’ for Scottish visas to boost workforce, says SNP MP

Stephen Gethins argued the UK’s current ‘one-size fits all’ approach to immigration is not working.

Economics

4 d. ago Hong Kong allows outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen to attend Pope Francis' funeral

Hong Kong’s outspoken Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen has been allowed to leave the southern Chinese city to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Vatican City

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5 d. ago Son watched his father being covered in petrol and burned alive by neighbour after they argued about cutting down trees

Joshua Bainbridge was responding to yelling at a rural property in Victoria, Australia when he witness Stuart Lee, 65, pouring petrol over his father, Colin, 66, on March 14, 2023.

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5 d. ago Indian security forces hunt militants after 26 tourists killed in Kashmir attack

Incident apparently involving four gunmen is worst attack on civilians in India since Mumbai shootings in 2008Indian security forces fanned out across the Himalayan region of Kashmir as the army and police launched a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of a militant attack on Tuesday that killed at least 26 tourists.Tens of thousands of armed police and troops headed to the region, setting up checkpoints and searching vehicles, while many businesses remained closed after a call by religious and political figures. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Coldplay draws 200,000 fans as Hong Kong bets big on concert tourism boost

The British band were the first major international act to perform at the newly-opened Kai Tak Sports Park

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7 d. ago China to retaliate with sanctions on US officials, NGO leaders over Hong Kong issues

China will sanction U.S. officials, lawmakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations who Chinese officials say have performed poorly on Hong Kong issues in a retaliatory move against Washington

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7 d. ago The Upper House, Hong Kong: Is this the best city hotel in the world?

This boutique bolthole was voted the world’s fifth best hotel, so does it live up to the hype? Joel Porter finds out

Society

9 d. ago Ronnie O'Sullivan's World Snooker Championship 'stage fright', life in Hong Kong and huge net worth

World Snooker Championship success for Ronnie O'Sullivan this year would break a tie with Stephen Hendry to become the outright modern-era record holder with eight wins

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9 d. ago Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures

Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the late Fumihiko Maki designed 17 beautiful, functional, meticulously clean public toilets, some of which featured in Wim Wenders’s 2023 film Perfect Days. Hong Kong-based photographer Ulana Switucha came across the toilets, each unique, while working on a project about Japanese architecture in 2023, and went back to photograph them the following year. “These structures are works of art,” she says. “They shine as beacons in their urban setting and demonstrate that public design can go beyond functionality to represent cultural and artistic value.”Ulana Switucha is the winner of the architecture and design category of the Sony world photography awards 2025 Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Ken Doherty gives honest verdict on Ronnie O'Sullivan living outside the UK

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump have, separately, relocated to Hong Kong to help cope with snooker's intense travel demands.

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